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( WCOTTj to UTAH VALLEY STATE COLLEGE vuvib rmn n n iff w WWW ll MlllJjLl) C EL BUEN PANO EN EL ARCA SE VENDE ,1 ' i v iYV ! I if U J.U.LL i VOLUME 33 ISSUE li 3 V - U k- J J GLASGOW mi QOGcDGGlj By Shawn Mansell Your News Editor Joan picked up some close-by scissors and hacked at her own flesh. "I wanted to numb the pain," she said of her self-destructive behavior. "Self-mutilation is like the release I wanted to get from suicide." The action kept her suicidal urges temporarily fed. Joan struggles with depression. Some days she finds herself locked in a personal war zone where she battles powerful feelings of taking her own life. These thoughts of worthlessness and hopelessness have plagued her for months. They have dragged her down like a stone around her neck. An honors student with a scholarship, Joan is especially disheartened by the toll her emotional state has taken on her academics. "It has really been debilitat-ing."Coming to grips with sexual abuse that she experienced when she was younger triggered her depression. She had pushed and locked her trauma and grief into the darkest recesses of her mind. When her abuser was incarcerated for similar crimes against others, an emotional floodgate opened, releasing the symptoms of depression and posttraumatic stress syndrome. Joan has fought to survive. She received some therapy that was helpful and has made use of drugs to battle anxiety and depression. While Joan has decided against taking her own life, unfortunately others in the UVSC community haven't. Dr Jack Jensen from the Health and Wellness Center explained that UVSC usually sees one or two students' suicides a year, but this year there have been six already, even with another semester to go. "We are concerned," Jensen said. "That is a dramatic increase for us." Jensen has a suicide prevention workshop scheduled for December 1 at noon in SC 206B. He will share warning signs suicidal people often exhibit, and other data he wants taken seriously. Jensen will be warning about red flags such as frequent thoughts of suicide, and giving away prized possessions. When people start cultivating a plan for ending it all, Jensen thinks intervention is needed. "We offer affordable therapy sessions at $8 and less if needed on a sliding scale," he said. The Wellness Center also has professionals on hand who can prescribe medications to aid a battle with depression. "People should know help is available. They don't have to do this on their own." Ben Thomas is a white-collar worker and Utah County resident. He figures clinical depression has been a problem in his life for decades. "I learned to fake being happy," he said. When that coping mechanism wore thin, Thomas crashed. Suicidal, distraught and scared, he tried counseling, drugs and even electro-shock therapy to exorcise the 1 Internet security put to the test with liue By Sam Garfield News Writer If your computer is connected to the Internet, then you're at risk of being hacked. This was the bottom line of a live security demonstration given by John "JB" Bartholomew last Wednesday. Bartholomew works for an Orem based company called Security Metrics, and deals with all sorts of computer security issues. Bartholomew was at UVSC giving the conference to help educate students, faculty, and other interested community members about the importance of computer security. "Hacking is on the rise," Bartholomew said, "it happens more than you know." The most common form of hacking, he said, is defacement. This means a website is attacked and its contents are replaced with those of the hacker's. Bartholomew said that the "number one root cause of hacks is bugs in computer programs." A software package such as Windows may contain as many as 200,000 bugs, some simply annoying, and some ' presenting major security issues. He rated computer program bugs from high risk, meaning a hacker gains access and control of the target machine by exploiting the bug, to medium risk, meaning a hacker can gain sensitive information from the target machine. As part of his presentation, Bartholomew did a live "hack" demonstration. On one end was his computer, and on the other was a Windows 2000 server. In between the two machines was a firewall, which is designed to keep hackers out of computers. "Many people believe that if they have a firewall, they are okay," he said, prior to demonstrating how easy it is to gain access to the server. He then showed how he could change its contents ';i.- ,ffll,.HgH?7-l IV - V Byron SwoggerNctXNews Internet security expert John Bartholomew addresses a packed room last Wednesday and shows just how vulnerable computers are by demonstrating a live hack. Locals express concern over campus construction plans By Autumn Nielson News Writer Rumors have been flying about the additional land UVSC has obtained, and what future plans the college has in mind. Last Wednesday an open house was arranged for the community to come to the old Vineyard Elementary School to see just what the master planners are contemplating. Exhibits were set up in four areas of interest. First displayed were the architectural maps that were drawn to show three different concepts of construction on campus. Most of the community members attending were crowded around these posters, trying to comprehend the lines, colors, and blocks that would represent the "new" UVSC. Master planner, Kurt McGrew, of Gould Evans Architecture, explained the five year master plans for growth and acquisition of new property. Concept number one was to keep the loop road around UVSC as it is, and add buildings wherever they fit. Concept number two was to extend the loop road up and around Vineyard Elementary, relocate the wetland, add an additional public opening on the west side of the school, keep all of the college buildings connected (including a new performing arts center), and possibly build a parking garage. "Concept number one received an overall negative response, while number two received a more positive one," McGrew said. Concept number three was similar to number two, but more extensive, not as well connected, and received very little positive response. McGrew also spoke of the need to expand north, for that is the only space that is available. Unfortunately, there were several people that disagreed. Local residents Dennis Larsen and Dan Peny both agree that the answer to. the school's expansion plan , is tii n ii i 'nil

( WCOTTj to UTAH VALLEY STATE COLLEGE vuvib rmn n n iff w WWW ll MlllJjLl) C EL BUEN PANO EN EL ARCA SE VENDE ,1 ' i v iYV ! I if U J.U.LL i VOLUME 33 ISSUE li 3 V - U k- J J GLASGOW mi QOGcDGGlj By Shawn Mansell Your News Editor Joan picked up some close-by scissors and hacked at her own flesh. "I wanted to numb the pain," she said of her self-destructive behavior. "Self-mutilation is like the release I wanted to get from suicide." The action kept her suicidal urges temporarily fed. Joan struggles with depression. Some days she finds herself locked in a personal war zone where she battles powerful feelings of taking her own life. These thoughts of worthlessness and hopelessness have plagued her for months. They have dragged her down like a stone around her neck. An honors student with a scholarship, Joan is especially disheartened by the toll her emotional state has taken on her academics. "It has really been debilitat-ing."Coming to grips with sexual abuse that she experienced when she was younger triggered her depression. She had pushed and locked her trauma and grief into the darkest recesses of her mind. When her abuser was incarcerated for similar crimes against others, an emotional floodgate opened, releasing the symptoms of depression and posttraumatic stress syndrome. Joan has fought to survive. She received some therapy that was helpful and has made use of drugs to battle anxiety and depression. While Joan has decided against taking her own life, unfortunately others in the UVSC community haven't. Dr Jack Jensen from the Health and Wellness Center explained that UVSC usually sees one or two students' suicides a year, but this year there have been six already, even with another semester to go. "We are concerned," Jensen said. "That is a dramatic increase for us." Jensen has a suicide prevention workshop scheduled for December 1 at noon in SC 206B. He will share warning signs suicidal people often exhibit, and other data he wants taken seriously. Jensen will be warning about red flags such as frequent thoughts of suicide, and giving away prized possessions. When people start cultivating a plan for ending it all, Jensen thinks intervention is needed. "We offer affordable therapy sessions at $8 and less if needed on a sliding scale," he said. The Wellness Center also has professionals on hand who can prescribe medications to aid a battle with depression. "People should know help is available. They don't have to do this on their own." Ben Thomas is a white-collar worker and Utah County resident. He figures clinical depression has been a problem in his life for decades. "I learned to fake being happy," he said. When that coping mechanism wore thin, Thomas crashed. Suicidal, distraught and scared, he tried counseling, drugs and even electro-shock therapy to exorcise the 1 Internet security put to the test with liue By Sam Garfield News Writer If your computer is connected to the Internet, then you're at risk of being hacked. This was the bottom line of a live security demonstration given by John "JB" Bartholomew last Wednesday. Bartholomew works for an Orem based company called Security Metrics, and deals with all sorts of computer security issues. Bartholomew was at UVSC giving the conference to help educate students, faculty, and other interested community members about the importance of computer security. "Hacking is on the rise," Bartholomew said, "it happens more than you know." The most common form of hacking, he said, is defacement. This means a website is attacked and its contents are replaced with those of the hacker's. Bartholomew said that the "number one root cause of hacks is bugs in computer programs." A software package such as Windows may contain as many as 200,000 bugs, some simply annoying, and some ' presenting major security issues. He rated computer program bugs from high risk, meaning a hacker gains access and control of the target machine by exploiting the bug, to medium risk, meaning a hacker can gain sensitive information from the target machine. As part of his presentation, Bartholomew did a live "hack" demonstration. On one end was his computer, and on the other was a Windows 2000 server. In between the two machines was a firewall, which is designed to keep hackers out of computers. "Many people believe that if they have a firewall, they are okay," he said, prior to demonstrating how easy it is to gain access to the server. He then showed how he could change its contents ';i.- ,ffll,.HgH?7-l IV - V Byron SwoggerNctXNews Internet security expert John Bartholomew addresses a packed room last Wednesday and shows just how vulnerable computers are by demonstrating a live hack. Locals express concern over campus construction plans By Autumn Nielson News Writer Rumors have been flying about the additional land UVSC has obtained, and what future plans the college has in mind. Last Wednesday an open house was arranged for the community to come to the old Vineyard Elementary School to see just what the master planners are contemplating. Exhibits were set up in four areas of interest. First displayed were the architectural maps that were drawn to show three different concepts of construction on campus. Most of the community members attending were crowded around these posters, trying to comprehend the lines, colors, and blocks that would represent the "new" UVSC. Master planner, Kurt McGrew, of Gould Evans Architecture, explained the five year master plans for growth and acquisition of new property. Concept number one was to keep the loop road around UVSC as it is, and add buildings wherever they fit. Concept number two was to extend the loop road up and around Vineyard Elementary, relocate the wetland, add an additional public opening on the west side of the school, keep all of the college buildings connected (including a new performing arts center), and possibly build a parking garage. "Concept number one received an overall negative response, while number two received a more positive one," McGrew said. Concept number three was similar to number two, but more extensive, not as well connected, and received very little positive response. McGrew also spoke of the need to expand north, for that is the only space that is available. Unfortunately, there were several people that disagreed. Local residents Dennis Larsen and Dan Peny both agree that the answer to. the school's expansion plan , is tii n ii i 'nil